Controlled vocabulary

Agreed list of terms for indexing and retrieval, so that one subject is always described the same way.

subject of

• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV): A Gateway to Reusable Semantic Vocabularies on the Web writing 2016 [src]

built upon by

• SNOMED CT standard 2002 [src]
• Thesaurus (information retrieval) concept [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary